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Can government afford the new minimum wage?
After a three days warning strike, the government has proposed to increase the minimum wage from N18, 000 to N24,…
The endangered Nigerian middle-class
From independence in 1960 to the early 1980s Nigeria grew a solid and robust middle class of professionals –…
Own goals or fifth columnists in government policy…
Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed clawed back some respectability for Nigeria recently at the Nigerian Economic Summit…
Politics of issues and imperative of debates for…
General Elections Nigeria 2019 will formally kick off on November 17, 2018, when the Independent National Electoral…
Hold President Buhari responsible for the Apapa port…
Nigeria continues to bleed in several pores over the continued crisis with ingress and egress into the Apapa port.…
Subsidising fuel amidst crushing poverty
This year, the federal government has bandied several figures as expenditure on fuel subsidy or under recovery as…
Killing of Shiites in Nigeria
On December 12, 2015, the military took the law into its hands and massacred over 347 members of the Islamic…
Government must find solution to congestion at Apapa…
Although the access roads to Apapa and Tin Can ports were originally projected to give access to 1,500 trucks, now…
Minimum wage conundrum
After a three days warning strike, the government has proposed to increase the minimum wage from N18, 000 to N24,…
Government desperation and illegal taxation
It is not news that Nigeria is having a serious fiscal crisis, with revenues falling far short of target and…
Fuelling poverty through import ban
The federal government recently announced that it plans to close Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to tackle the…
Nigeria’s poor economic performance
A recent analysis by BusinessDay shows that the economic policies of the Buhari administration have had a…